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Junot Diaz’s new book, “This Is How You Lose Her,” is coming out in September, but he says it feels like “selling a movie out of competition” because it’s a short-story collection and not, as most people seem to ask of him, his next novel.

“I know for a fact that – it’s just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story collection does not receive the same kind of attention as a novel,” Diaz says. “I’ve talked to a few people and they’ve been like oh, you got these new stories coming, and the first thing they say is, when’s the novel?”

Diaz, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his first novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” is already working on his next novel, “Monstro,” about an apocalypse that’s set on the island of Hispaniola. He says he’s always been interested in how Hispaniola figures into the core history of our world. Read More »

Two weeks ago, actress and singer Patti LuPone grabbed a cell phone out of the hand of an audience member who was texting during a performance of her current play, "Shows for Days." The bold move led to an outpouring of support from fans fed up with glowing screens. Ms. LuPone gives us her five rules of theater etiquette.